Harvard–Yale football rivalry

Harvard–Yale football rivalry
Harvard Crimson	Yale Bulldogs
First game played	November 13, 1875
Played annually since	1897 (Not played 1917–1918 due to World War I; 1943–44 due to World War II)
Games played	133 (through 2016)
Series record	Yale leads, 66–59–8
Largest margin of victory	Yale 54, Harvard 0 (November 23, 1957)
Highest scoring game	Yale 33, Harvard 31 (November 20, 1993)
Lowest scoring game	Yale 0, Harvard 0 (last time: November 21, 1925)
Most recent game	Yale 21, Harvard 14 (November 19, 2016)
Next game	November 18, 2017
Current win streak	Yale, 1

The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University. Yale leads the series 66–59–8.

"Harvard and Yale generally duke it out in the academic arena" but geographic proximity, the history of Yale's founding, and social competition between the respective student bodies and alumni contingents animate the athletic rivalry.

"A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard" from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville examples public fascination with both institutions.

The Game is central to the Harvard - Yale athletic rivalry. Sports Illustrated magazine (On Campus edition) in 2006 rated the rivalry as sixth-best among American collegiate athletic rivalries behind, in order, Alabama - Auburn, Duke - North Carolina, UCLA - USC, Army - Navy, and Cal - Stanford.

The football rivalry is among the oldest rivalries in the annals of American sports. The first contest was held in 1875, two years after the inaugural Princeton - Yale football contest, the oldest continually played football rivalry in the sport's history. Only the Princeton - Yale football series and the Lafayette - Lehigh football series have been played more often.

The sport is among the oldest in the United States. Baseball's Knickerbocker Rules were set in 1845. The Harvard-Yale Regatta is older by two decades and is the oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the United States. Basketball was invented in 1891.

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